River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-01
NORTHUMBERLAND NEWS.

The golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. Horatio n. Davis took place
on the 2Sth, at the residence of their son,
IT, S. Senator G. K Davis, at St Paul.t they
having having been married August *
1887, at Henderson, n. Y In lS:s they set
tied at Waukesha, Wis aud five or six
years since came to st. Paul Mr. Davis is
10 years of age, Mrs. Davis 80. and of their
eight children four are living, three of
whom attended the golden wedding. Mr.
Davis came of WEIGH ancestry that settled
i'm Massachusetts 200 years ago. Mrs Davis
is descended from the famous Cushmau
family the ninth descendant of Robert
Cushman, the puritan, who, in 1917, was
sent by the exiles at Leyden, holland, to
apply TO the king forleave to settle in Amer
lea. As a leader and business man among the
Pilgrim Fathers, Cushman fitted out the
Mayflower, and it was largely due to his
sturdy characteristics and financial ability
that the voyage was successful.
Lake Minnetonka- Mimi, received
two more victims Thursday, in the drown
ing of Prof II. $. Widney, principal of the
Excelsior Academy, and Miss Lulu HaiEes,
the l4-year-old daughter of Mr. Haines a
well-known citizen of Excelsior. Prof.
Widney, his two daughters and Lulu
Haines were gathering water lilies on a
raft in a pond near the rear of the academy.
The raft began to sink, when Prof. Widney
jumped off, thinking to lessen the weight,
and save the lives of the little girls. He
had no sooner jumped in, however, when
the girls followed after him, and in the
struggle which ensued, Prof Widney and
Miss Haines were drowned. The two
daughters of Prof. Widney were rescued
from watery grave through the bravery
of Theodore Bust, Jr., who witnessed the
accident and jumped in to the rescue.
The Manitoba X. r., has purchased
nearly 400 acres of land at st. Cloud, Mimi,
for shops ard stock yards, lying on both
sides of the Sau.. river. The engineers will
be placed ct work at once, and the ground
viii be prepared this fall and a commence
ment made ON the buildings. TIE car shops
will probably be located on this side of the
Sank river while the entire Eugene McCar-
thy farm, 100 acres, will be taken for the
stock yards, which will be on a scale to ac.
commOdate the traffic of Minnesota, Dakota
and Montana. In addition to the car shops
an extensive foundry will be built to turn
out all the car wheels used on the road. The
company will expend in this work this fall
and in 1855, 81 100000, and the works will
provide for 1000, which would mean the
employment of at least 800 men.
The house of ID. S. Hitler, a farmer
living about six miles from Osseo, Hennepin
Co, Mimi, in an isolated locality, was
visited by two men about O'Clock in the
morning Mrs. Hitler was the only
occupant of the house, Mr.. Hitler and sons
being in the field at work. some distance
from the house. The men threw Mrs.
Hitler into the cistern and then proceeded
to ransack the house. One hundred and
seventy-four dollars in money and 5000 in
notes were stolen. The men then fled,
leaving Mrs. Hitler in the cistern, from
which perilous situation she was rescued
some two hours later by her soh The els
tern contained seven feet of water aud she
chung to the pipe to keep from drowning.
The rascals were not caught.
Chairman Cooley of the Interstate
Commerce commission, replying to o. d.
Reyes of Faribault, Mimi, upon the matter
of taking voluminous oral testimony in
Minnesota in the Board of Trade Union VS..
the c NJ. d st p. r R., offers the opinion
that the facts must be largely matters of
public nOtoriety which it will be unneces-
sarv to prove orally. He dwells at some
length on the volume of business awaiting
the action of the commission and urges
counsel TO endeavor 10 reach agreements, rs
far as possible, in all cases upon statements
of facts, with a view to reducing 70 the
smallest compass the oral evidence necessary
10 be taken.
ID. b. Staples, son of Isaac Staples of
saltwater, Mimi. shot Charles A. Winshipof
Minneapolis, in the hall of the Brewster
house at Freeport. H., the bullet lodging
near the heart, almost necessarily fatal
Both the Dung men had horses on the track
at the Freeport races Staples was locked
up. He refused TO talk about the matter,
saying that his victim could be relied upon
TO give an explanation Mr.. Winship says
be can assign no cause for the shooting. One
of the Staples trOtters was badly beaten in
the races and il Is intimated that the yon
man accused Winship of being the cause of
il. Staples was more or less intoxicated
when he committed the deed.
For incest, practiced to more than
abhorrent degree, Reinhart stein, living in
a German settlement in Dane county, Wis,